Ducie are a Manchester quartet with a folk-influenced style that shifts constantly between jigs, reels and airs to blues and influences from Cuba, west Africa, India and Spain. This is a new band, but the players all have impressive musical credentials. Fiddler Andrew Dinan was the first English-based musician to win the All-Ireland Fiddle Championship, and is joined here by guitar ace Ian Fletcher, with whom he worked in the Future Trad Collective, and by the former Lamb bassist Jon Thorne and Cuban-trained percussionist Rich Sliwa. The result is an all-instrumental set that veers constantly between Irish and global influences, with a flamenco-influenced treatment of Chris Wood's Lusignac matched against the majestic and epic fiddle and strings work on Song of the Strings, a clash of jigs and reggae on Grianan Bear It, and African highlife on Slowlife. Classy.